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9 minutes ago, imavillan said:

A strong character is required in the Championship

Out of contract, doesn't want to play for another prem team because he doesn't want to play against chelsea. Only real other options are far east/china/america and it would seem that the states would be his prefered choice but 35 year old defenders don't get paid a lot in the MLS (Cole is on about 4 grand per week).

10 hours ago, villarocker said:

Aren't Newcastle supposedly fooked if they go down? I'm sure the paper's were reporting that Ashley used up their transfer funds in January and that players on big bucks don't have relegation clauses. 

Ashley has a net worth of somewhere between 3 & 4 Billion so sure he could fund a season or twos worth of wages if needed

5 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Black is cack

Good banner/bedsheet for saturday

As much as he is a useless fat knacker he wouldn't be the only footballer to stop in a caravan occasionally.

Wayne Rooney & family were at Prestatyn in a caravan last year, Rio Ferdinand & kids have done it before.

Multi millionaires or not they would still get some privacy as nobody would really expect them to be there and i doubt too many people pay attention to who is in the next caravan and i'm sure the kids would have a much better time somewhere like that than in a tiny b&b or 5 star hotel.

A lot of these beach resorts in the UK don't have any fancy or major chain hotels anyway so often a caravan may actually be the only/best option.

Just wish he didn't look so sad all the time. Even when he scores he looks like he's about to burst into tears.

anyone still want Quique Sanchez Flores as manager next year? 

bah was hoping our surely inevitable win at some point would have been next week against Newcastle to drag them down with us.

hope so otherwise we will be playing Fleetwood & Shrewsbury the following year

49 minutes ago, Czechlad said:

Can't we just put Petrov in charge? He is an assistant is he not?

That wouldn't actually be the worst idea in the world

basically about 1500 people ended up in an area this size (between the yellow lines) with no way out and more people piled up behind them trying to get in.

18 minutes ago, maqroll said:

Does anyone know the capacity of Leppings Lane at the time and was there ever an estimate of how many people were in the stand and inside the gate tunnel when the crush occurred?

10,100 allocation, 7,2oo supposed to be in leppings & 2,900 more on north west corner. insane really as they didn't even reassess the capacity after putting in new barriers & the fenced off pens and it seems that most of the 10,100 ended up in the same place but they had no way of knowing how many people were in each section.

"According to John Cutlack, an expert stadium engineer, the seeds of the 1989 disaster were sown 10 years previously when a safety certificate overestimated the capacity of the Leppings Lane standing area at 7,200. He said the true safe figure was in fact 5,425. Pen three, where many Liverpool fans died, could only safely hold 678 fans but on the day of the disaster there were up to 1,430 people inside. The club's engineer, Dr Eastwood, agreed "with hindsight" the total figure of 10,100 - which allowed for an additional 2,900 standing fans in the north-west corner stand - was "too high".

In 1981, at the semi-final between Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Hillsborough, 38 fans were injured in a crush. In a course of events that would be repeated eight years later, police opened Gate C after congestion at the turnstiles. A serious crush developed in the Leppings Lane end and fatalities were "narrowly avoided", according to the HIP report. Two perimeter gates were opened to let some fans escape on to the pitch. Turnstile counters showed that 335 too many fans had been allowed on to the terrace that day. At the time, Sheffield Wednesday FC blamed Tottenham fans for "arriving late" and "rushing to their places", crushing those in front. After the incident, Hillsborough was not chosen to host an FA Cup semi-final for six years.

Under the terms of the ground's safety certificate, an Officer Working Party including the council, police, fire service and the club, inspected the ground each year. But the OWP never flagged up that the capacity of the Leppings Lane terrace needed recalculating. When it reviewed the stadium in May 1988, the OWP said the stadium had "no significant defects". Mr Cutlack told the inquests the annual inspections of the ground were missed opportunities to reassess the capacity.

The Leppings Lane terrace then underwent some significant alterations, none of which led to a revised safety certificate. On the recommendation of South Yorkshire Police, the club introduced the penning system to "prevent free movement of supporters". Yet proposals to feed fans directly to certain sections of the stand from designated turnstiles, allowing numbers to be monitored, were not acted on "because of anticipated costs to SWFC", the HIP report found. The gradient of the tunnel also significantly breached guidelines for sports grounds.

Reinstated as a semi final venue in 1987, Hillsborough hosted the match between Leeds United and Coventry City. Shortly before kick-off, police delayed the match by 15 minutes to ensure that late-arriving fans could be accommodated. One Leeds fan described "a bad crush" in the central pens, the crowd so tightly packed, he was "unable to clap his hands".

The 1988 semi-final, also between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, passed without serious incident although some Liverpool fans and police officers later gave accounts of crushing within the Leppings Lane pens. On this occasions, the tunnel was closed and fans redirected to the side pens. According to the HIP report, Sheffield Wednesday "denied knowledge of any crowd-related concerns arising from the 1987 or 1988 FA Cup semi-finals".

It said overcrowding problems at the turnstiles in 1987, and on the terrace in 1988, indicated the inherent crowd safety dangers posed by the ground. The risks were known and "the crush in 1989 was foreseeable", it added.

The jury concluded there were too few operating turnstiles, signage to the side pens was inadequate and the stadium design and layout contributed to the crush."

What odds are they to win the champions league next season.........

1 minute ago, Pilchard said:

BREAKING NEWS....

Rumours Gabby Agbonlahor was chasing it trying to hit it's arse with a banjo can not be confirmed.

No chance of that fat bastard chasing anything

As much as i don't ike Westwood and he should be permanantly banned from taking any set piece ever again i think he would actually be ok next year in the Championship. A couple of people around him with a brain who give a shit and you may find he shines.

Just now, Davkaus said:

Nice one, Westwood. You've **** up my bet though.

Hah, Told you

2 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

I have good odds on us losing by at least 2. It eases the pain.

I did that last week, It did not ease the pain...

just made me £100 worse off on the day we went down.

Can't even get thrashed by united properly

I hope they get 6 before half time

great marking from lescott there.....

can we not just play some booing over the tannoy for the whole 90 minutes & stick this on the scoreboard

I really can't see what there is to gain by picking this same crap line-up yet again.

Pressure is off, We are down. This is the ideal time for a complete change & to try something different but we continue to pick the same shite that has got us here in the first place.

The whole lot of them other than Cowans need to piss off asap

Harry Kane scored 31 goals for spurs last year , He has also scored 27 so far this season

Gabby Agbonlahor has scored 34 since Martin O'Neill left 6 seasons ago. He is dogshit

not sure when this happened but looks like someone is busy updating his wiki...